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The solicitor general's office is siding with the president in his appeal of lower court rulings upholding subpoenas issued by House committees and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.

The Justice Department argued that the Constitution prohibits local law enforcement from investigating the president and that Congress must overcome high hurdles when seeking information from him.

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The Iowa caucuses aren't over yet. A delay in the results meant the state Democratic Party did not call the race Monday night as expected, leaving the candidates and their supporters in limbo.

State party officials said Tuesday morning they are certain "the underlying data" collected at caucus sites is sound but that an issue arose in reporting that data. Results are expected later Tuesday. Chair Troy Price said though the app was recording data accurately, "it was reporting out only partial data" because of a "coding issue in the reporting system."

NPR's Miles Parks previously reported on concerns over the new use of a smartphone app for reporting results.

As campaigns and caucusgoers anxiously awaited results last night, Price had said the party is "manually verifying all precinct results" and expects to have numbers sometime Tuesday.

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An Office of Management and Budget (OMB) lawyer said in the filing that the emails are protected by “presidential privilege,” The Washington Post reported.

Justice Department and Office of Management and Budget attorneys acknowledged in the late Friday night filings the existence of emails explaining the president's thinking about withholding about $400 million in Ukraine aid. Hours earlier, the Senate voted largely along party lines to not call witnesses in the impeachment trial. A final vote on whether or not to acquit Trump is expected Wednesday.

"Specifically, the documents ... are emails that reflect communications by either the President, the Vice President, or the President’s immediate advisors regarding Presidential decision-making about the scope, duration, and purpose of the hold on military assistance to Ukraine," Heather Walsh, deputy general counsel for the Office of Management and Budget, wrote.

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Top scientists and officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service (NWS) privately criticized President Donald Trump’s altered map of the track of Hurricane Dorian to include Alabama, according to emails obtained by the Washington Post through the Freedom of Information Act.

In one email exchange, Cory Pieper, social media director at the NWS, alerted the public affairs office that the president “doctored” the image he showed on national television. Susan Buchanan, the director of the office, replied, “Are you sure they were doctored?” Pieper wrote back, “Yes, that was doctored.”

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Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Friday if there are no witness testimonies in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump that it is considered "a job only half done."